Dictionaries › Latin

venenum

Pronunciation: [wɛˈneː.nũː]

“venenum” is a Latin word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a potion, juice
  2. poison, venom

In Latin

  1. Res sanitate nocens vel etiam mortifera.

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *weneznom (“lust, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, love”). See also Sanskrit वनति (vanati, “gain, wish, erotic lust”), Latin Venus, veneror, venia, vēnor and English wish.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “venenum” there

More Latin words

About this dictionary

The Latin dictionary on Glottosphere has 42,428 entries with a page. Browse the Latin dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Definitions in Latin are from the Latin Wiktionary, under the same licence.